By
K.N.Rao
K. N. Rao needs no introduction, he
runs the biggest school of astrology in
the world, has produced the highest
number of top quality books which
has cult following, and is known for
his outstanding predictive ability.
History acknowledges his contribution
in popularizing Vargas usage in India
& USA, Double Transit phenomenon &
Chara Dasha. He is considered as the
one who displayed for the first time in
astrology what was termed spell
bounding writing styles in Jyotish,
using narratives with top class jyotish
content, a style now adopted by many
over the decades. It is often found that
what he writes in one line is 15 page
articles for others. For his articles visit
www.journalofastrology.com
I
n those days when I was not
predicting about marriage and
children, the late Sri S.K. Kelkar of
Pune had taken up around forty or
fifty cases of marriages performed
when Jupiter was in Simha and found
nothing wrong. He told me of the fear
some pundits created in the minds of
those parents wanting to get their
children married when Jupiter was in
Simha or Leo and were afraid of
doing so because of the fright created
of its evil consequences. When I found
some time, I started noting the fate of
marriages of those who were married
when Jupiter was in Simha or Leo and
agreed with Sri Kelkar that I too
found nothing wrong in these. But
compared to the vast number of
astrological pandits who believed in it
Sri Kelkar and I were in a very tiny
majority. To be more specific,
marriages when Jupiter is in first five
navamshas of Simha, it is said to be
bad to fatal.
A conference of astrologers was
held sometime in 1990 in Delhi and it was unanimously decided by astrologers
that based on their experience there was nothing wrong in performing marriages
during this period. I kept observing it and noted down the dates when Jupiter was
in Simha or Leo and checked some known and unknown facts about their married
lives.

When Jupiter was in Simha

From 2 October 1955 to 13 March 1956

24 May 1956 to 27 October 1956
19 April 1957 to 18 June 1957
16 September 1967 to 11 October 1968
31 August 1979 to 25 September 1980
15 August 1991 to 11 September 1992
30 July 2003 to 27 August 2004
I asked my students, particularly women, also to check it in their collection of
horoscopes. In 2002 when again this was talked about that “forbidden period
would occur from July 2003.

Then in 2003 we published a book SIMHASTHA BRIHASPATI OR JUPITER

IN LEO with seven women astrologers doing a research under my guidance by
taking up as many 146 horoscopes of people married during Simhastha Brihaspati
or Jupiter in Leo and the conclusions arrived at after an elaborate analysis was as
given here from that book.

Yet there are people who will be carried away by it is being repeated now,
with Jupiter preparing to enter Simha (Leo) in August this year.
THIS IS A YEAR ASTROLOGICAL SUPERSTITION AND HAS BEGUN
HAUNTING PEOPLE WANTING TO GET THEIR CHILDREN MARRIED AFTER
AUGUST 2015 FOR ONE YEAR !!!

One such Indian wrote to me from USA quoted some newspaper reports like
this. “Mahendra Pandya, the president of Akhil Gujarat Astrological Society who
attended the meeting, said that Jupiter will enter an adverse position in July 2015
and remain there till August 2016.”If somebody has to marry due to unavoidable
circumstances such as going abroad, he or she will have to perform an anusthan
(propitiating ritual) for Jupiter, Moon and Sun, according to their horoscopes,"
Pandya said. "If a wedding takes place in this period without an anusthan, ill-
effects like marital discord and family disputes are likely."
Here is the original article, it is causing much trouble amongst Indians here
 in the states. http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/300-indian-astrologers-
marriage-after-july-2015-can-result-in-divorce-230863.htmlPerhaps you can
address this on your journalofastrology.com website. FYI we are planning to get
married in December.

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Let me pose two questions before these people before coming to the extracts
from a big research of ours of 2003.

1) Did Rajiv Gandhi, married on 28 February 1968, have any such

misfortunes in his married life? Find out where was Jupiter when he got married. It
was in the second navamsha of Simha. Write to Sonia Gandhi hoping that she will
answer your question to know the details. Forget the short span of the life of Rajiv
which has no relation to Jupiter in Simha.

2) Or better still find out where Jupiter was when the actor Shatrughna Sinha
was married on 9 July 1980. Jupiter was in the fifth navamsha of Simha (Leo). How
is his married life? Write to him and hope he answers your question after thirty
five years of his marriage.

3) I have marriage dates of many famous Indians with Jupiter in Simha but
cannot reveal any details about them
.
Coming back to our research, read these first, our findings after examining
146 cases, a large enough

The Positive Cases

1. All the cases in which marriages were performed in Simhastha Jupiter are
intimately known to the research team.
2. They have had the normal problems which can be explained through the
normal known astrological rules. For instance, in case number six, there is Ketu
in the fifth house aspected by Saturn, the fifth lord in the eighth aspecting its
own house. There was a mishap in the birth of his first child after marriage but
the other two children have been happy and have done well in life. In a
transferrable job, he was transferred during his service career leaving his wife
alone. It happens in all jobs with transfer liability. Otherwise, it is an ideal and
happy married life, such as is the envy of many.
3. We have found no astrological logic for this prohibition or any explanation
anywhere.
4. We have not found any astrological logic for marriages being prohibited in the
first five navamshas of Simha. It seems to have come down as a tradition which
has been followed without questioning or examination through any research.
5. If the navamshas of Jupiter in Mesha, Vrisha, Mithuna Karka and Simha are
relevant it must be seen that when Jupiter is in other eleven rashis it cover all
these four or at least two of these navamshas invariably.
a. Jupiter in Mesha, Vrisha, Makara, Dhanu, and Kanya will be in all these
navamshas also.
b. Jupiter in Mithuna, Kumbha and Tula will cover Mesha and Vrisha
navamshas.
c. Jupiter in Meena, Vrischika and Karka will cover Karka and Simha navamshas
d. Why is Jupiter in these navamsas when transiting other eleven rashi (other
than Simha) not covered with similar prohibition is not clear.
6. It is also not at all clear why there should be a muhurta for the region between
Godavari and Ganga and not the rest of the country. There was a time in
Indian history when this region was supposed to be inhabited by the purest
and best people of the world who had even claimed that Manu Samhita was
applicable only to this region. Is this theory of marriages prohibited during the
transit of Jupiter in Simha, particularly in the first five navamshas, an off shoot
of that feeling of superiority? Or is it because during the transit of Jupiter in
Simha there are two Kumbha melas, one in Nasik and the other Ujjain, people
in this region did not want to get involved in the worldly activity like marriage
and wanted to be free from it ? And therefore they sought and created an
excuse?

In Bihar, in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, marriages were
performed only during the transit of Sun in uttarayana course when Devatas
(gods) are said to be awake. But rest of India did not care for this.

Negative Cases

T
he description given under negative cases need not be elaborated here.
Readers can cast the horoscopes and see themselves why what happened
had to happen. Summing up
The tabular summary given shows the impressive results of this research. The
marriages from twelve to forty eight years is long enough to prove the validity of
the research. Some of the marriages are very happy and ideal also.

Our research reveals that

a. Marriages done when Jupiter is in Simha does not do any damage to
marriages.
b. When Jupiter is in the first five navamshas of Simha it does not do any damage
to marriages.
c. When Jupiter is in the fifth, vargottama navamsha which is said to be the worst
out of all these, it does not do any damage to marriages.
 In the end, it must repeated that researches must be produced in astrology with
evidences to rescue it from fraudulent, foolish and frivolous astrologers.
It must also be remembered that in the case of the Ramayana and the
Mahabharata and other Puranas, the Bhandarkar Institute of Pune has done
researches to remove interpolations from various versions. In the case of astrology
such work has not been done. Different publishers have published different
versions of many of these books. For instance, one can see different versions of the
Brihat Parashara Shastra and see some conflicting versions and contradictions in
them.
It is not difficult to assume that in the Muhurtha books similar interpolations
may have taken place. The prejudice attached to Simhastha Jupiter and marriages
may be an interpolation. At any rate, through our astrological research we see no
reason to accept it as an astrologically valid objection to marriages.

K.N.Rao 10 September 2003

That was from the statistical book we had produced in 2003 where all 146
horoscopes are given with needed details and comments like this.
Brief write up about the cases
21. Is a successful professional singer with a happy married and has two sons.
22. In these forty six years of their married, they have led a very happy married
life. The husband of this woman was Director General in the WHS Ministry
and late also a member of the UPSC. They have three daughters and one son
all very well educated. Their married life has been the envy of many.
23,24. She is a lady doctor and her husband a plastic surgeon. They have two
daughters and now earning very well in Emirates. She, like her husband is
well employed. They are orthodox in their outlook and lead an ideal married
life.
25,26 The husband is from a royal family and the wife the daughter of an ICS
officer. In their thirty six years of marriage, they have had occasional
differences only with regard to the education of their two children. Otherwise
it has been a successful married life.
27. He had a hole in his heart from childhood, had an ordinary educated career
and joined journalism as a profession. Later, he joined television channels and
is a successful anchor with his handsome face. Married to an orthodox girl, he
has been leading a very happy married life with his two children.
28,29. A very rich man with his wife helping him in his business and has a
son who is now studying in Canada, after a brief spell of study in Australia.
The couple have amassed their marriage. The husband has some political
ambitions in which he has not succeeded so far.
30,31. Is a chartered accountant, has two sons and the marriage has survived
all these twenty four years inspite of occasional marital tension.
 32. A very highly successful married life in his long forty eighth years of married
life with as many as four children all of whom are very well educated and
well married. He himself is a rubber technologist and was educated in UK.
33,34. Husband is an engineer and wife is a computer engineer, settled
abroad with one daughter and son and are very happy.
35. Happy married life with two children both settled after good education.
Here only a sample of our vast research is given for readers to draw their own
conclusions. That book SIMHASTHA BRIHASPATI OR JUPITER IN LEO IS
BEING brought out again, a reprint very quickly and it contains valuable data
for researches in marriage

Date of marriage
23 May 1980
Degree of Jupiter in Simha at the time of marriage
Jupiter in Simha 07038'
Son - 1982
Son - 1986
Note the horoscope of the wife is not available in this case.
Date of Marriage
6 June 1957
Degree of Jupiter in Simha at the time of marriage
Jupiter in Simha 29003'
One daughter
Two sons
Note the horoscope of the husband is not available in this case.
Date of Marriage
4 May 1992
Degree of Jupiter in Simha at the time of marriage
Jupiter in Simha 10054'
Daughter - 1994
Daughter – 1995